You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home, America. From the entrenchment of special privileges in tax favoritism; from the waste of idle lands to the joy of useful labor; from the prejudice based on race and sex; from the loneliness of the aging poor and the despair of the neglected sick - come home, America.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.